The frequent occurrence of various disasters has exacerbated people's concerns, and there have been remarks in the international community about "whether the earth will be destroyed", Musk has answered this question, bluntly saying that human beings must leave the earth, there are three major threats that are approaching, if the situation is allowed to deteriorate, human civilization may be destroyed.
Musk is undoubtedly successful, often thinking about what will affect the future of humanity, and he is more optimistic about the Internet, sustainable energy and space exploration, and drops three bombshells PayPal, Tesla Motors and Space X. Now, at the November 17, 2021 conference on the progress of the starship program, Musk once again made a surprising statement, saying three reasons why humans must leave Earth, believing that these three major threats are threatening human civilization: unsustainable energy, the AI crisis, and an aging population.
First of all, the first non-sustainable energy, which is the biggest risk facing the earth in the short term, many carbon elements as the core of energy are not renewable energy, generation needs to go through millions of years, but the current development of mankind is too dependent on non-renewable energy, so the problem of imminent depletion must be paid attention to by all countries. For this problem, Musk opened the starship project, the purpose is to find new energy, he believes that "eggs can not be put in a basket", plans to land on Mars in 5 years, and strive to achieve 1 million Martian colonization in 20 years, establish a new civilization on Mars, and solve the problem of energy depletion.
The second threat is AI, in many fiction movies, AI dominates humans, Musk believes that the production of self-aware robots is another major threat facing human beings, in order to control the direction of development, it is developing efficient brain-computer interfaces, the human self-consciousness projection to the machine, to avoid its self-awareness, but also showed the public last year experimental pig.
The last one is the aging of the population, and even Musk, the world's richest man, is helpless about this problem. In early 2021, a Harvard scholar gave a study on the economics of aging, which mentioned that if the average human life expectancy can be extended by 1 year under the premise of compressing the incidence of incidence, it can generate at least $38 trillion in annual revenue, but the problem is that the pressure on young people is increasing, the prevalence of unmarried people, the birth rate of babies is very low, the elderly are increasing, and a large number of social resources are tilted to the health and life of the elderly. Musk bluntly said "I see a reversal of any trend."
The problem now is not longevity, but healthy longevity, so that aging will no longer be a threat, but this will not affect human civilization, because the development direction of human civilization has always been moving towards the unknown, and population aging, although tricky, will not be the end of human civilization.